I think you mean ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival), mate. DOA = Dead On Arrival. But what do I know.
I'm sure he meant Date of Arrival.
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I'm sure he meant Date of Arrival.
Heartless buggers. Have you tried flirting?
So, you mean that it's possible to SMS on another Softbank phone number, and it's free, right? And if the message gets too long, it will change to an MMS, and then there will be packet charges on both ends (unless you're on unlimited data).
Ah, I've never heard Date of Arrival refereed to as DOA before. You learn something new every day. Yesterday, I learnt that putting natto in a toasted jam sandwich was a bad idea.
It is indeed unlimited SMS and MMS but there are per message limits of 670 double byte characters for SMS and 300kb for MMS. The good news is that apparently it will just throw an error if you attempt to exceed the limits and not lead to extra charges.
I've never tried to MMS, don't even know if it works or how it would apply to your bill.
I've also never seen any charges for my SMSing to other Softbank users but don't take my word for it. lol
I think you mean ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival), mate. DOA = Dead On Arrival. But what do I know.
HAHA!! I guess the heat down here is getting to me.
Yes, I was sort of shooting for Date Of Arrival while completely forgetting the traditional meaning of the abbreviation.
With my luck I'll get my iPhone in mid-July or something and it WILL be DOA.
HAHA!! I guess the heat down here is getting to me.
Yes, I was sort of shooting for Date Of Arrival while completely forgetting the traditional meaning of the abbreviation.
With my luck I'll get my iPhone in mid-July or something and it WILL be DOA.
Being in the military has taught me one thing. To take an abbreviation and before assuming I know that abbreviation, applying it to the context and trying to figure it out from there.
So many abbreviations in the military are used in multiple places for completely different things.
LOL, you inspired me to look up a few military definitions for DOA:
Dead on Arrival
Department of the Army
Director of Administration
Design Organisation Approval
Data Operations Analyst
Date of Arrival
Days of Ammunition
Designed Overhaul Activity
Desired Order of Arrival
direction of attack
Direction-of-Arrival
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
You weren't kidding.
My phone is set (not by me) to send S! Mail as standard. If I get an SMS and I reply to it, it replies as an SMS, until I go over the 128 (?) character limit, then it'll ask me if I want to change the message into an S! Mail (MMS).
So, you could be already sending MMSs. If you've ever emailed a picture to someone, then that's an MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service).
There was a time when S! Mail was called Long Mail (back in the J-Phone days) for just text, and Sha-mail if there was a picture involved for sending. Or something like that.
The CEO of Softbank has just posted a message on Twitter saying he regrets that all customers who preordered the iPhone in advance will not be able to get them on Thursday:
Just got a call from Softbank telling me my iPhone is ready. Apparently they called yesterday but I didn't see the call...
Off I go to pick it up. Hoping it doesn't have yellow tints and bad reception!
Off I go to pick it up. Hoping it doesn't have yellow tints and bad reception!
Nice one! I hear the bad reception is only if you hold it, so don't hold it if you want to make a call.
Found out today that I'm number 22 in line. Unfortunately they only expect to get 5 units in today.
High five, Mike, I'm number 23 on the list at my store.
And now with these reports of critical problems on the iPhone 4 coming in Apple might be dealing with a load of units being returned for exchange too.
Nice one! I hear the bad reception is only if you hold it, so don't hold it if you want to make a call.
LOL! Yeah, or maybe if you wear gloves it doesn't affect the reception. That'd be a nice solution too. You have to wonder how an issue on that scale gets through the testing process...
My local SoftBank shop called me around 11:00 today and let me know my iPhone had come in. So I'll head off to pick it up in an hour! Woohoo! So sick of my iPhone 3G being slow.
Awesome! Do post back and let us know if yours has any of these issues that are being reported.
The yellow tinted display thing was a majorly reported issue on the 27" iMac but I never had the slightest hint of any color gradient issues on my own machine so you never know.
Okinawa
Is anyone else on this thread from Okinawa? I am still waiting, haven't heard a peep from the softbank store I ordered from yet. They said when I ordered it that they might not get any stock in till the 25th...
Is anyone else on this thread from Okinawa? I am still waiting, haven't heard a peep from the softbank store I ordered from yet. They said when I ordered it that they might not get any stock in till the 25th...
Loving it so far. Took about an hour in the softbank store. They said the store was quiet all day - they received 10 at this store. I was number 3. Phone is beautiful. Screen is nice. No sign of yellow. Great reception so far. Posting this using it...
I got it! The screen is amazing! The camera flash is so bright it made me see stars when I snapped a picture of myself!
I do have the issue with reception dropping while holding the phone while I'm sitting here in front of my computer, although this room has always been a bit shaky with reception. I'll go outside and try again. Hopefully this can be remedied with a software update.
I didn't see any display discoloration but I'll have another look when my phone finishes syncing. I can only see the black 'Sync in Progress' screen now.
The resolution of the Retina Display is so damn good. You really can't see pixels - except that the SoftBank carrier logo in the top left of the screen is a low resolution image (It hasn't been updated from the 3G/3GS resolution) and looks really jaggedy on my screen. Kind of nitpicky but I'd like that to be fixed.
The phone picks up fingerprints like crazy. I think the white one might be better when it comes out.
The SoftBank shop was pretty good. Everything was straightforward - I did get switched over to a new packet plan - Called パケットし放題フラット which isn't a sliding scale packet plan that tops out at 4410 like the old 'iPhone for Everybody Campaign', rather it is a constant 4410 every month. Apparently I get a bigger discount on the kisshudai by switching to this new plan.
They offered me a free FON Wi-Fi router for my house, but I declined because I already have an Apple Airport.
Hope you all get your iPhones soon!
Edit: I don't have discoloration on my display that I can tell. Also, my low-res apps look pretty bad. It'll be resolved as they get updated but I have some old iPhone apps, mostly Japanese ones that have never been updated since they were released. I'm kind of worried that they will be stuck in a low-res limbo forever.
They definitely should have seen that, or maybe they did and didn't think it was a big deal. I'm guessing that the signal drops slightly if you touch the metal siding, which all the antennas are hooked up to.
You know what FON wi-fi's about, right? Anyone who shares their internet on FON can access anyone else's for free.
I've heard of it before but never looked into it seriously. Not sure that I'm really interested in it. Are you on it?